Oddly, I think my career high-point in one-day internationals was in a match that turned into another World Cup nightmare - the 1999 semi-final.

I took four for 25 against a tremendous Australia side, at my second cricketing home Edgbaston, and walked off the field very proud with my performance, saying if we could not win from there we did not deserve to.

It turned into a horror movie, just like the other night in Durban against Sri Lanka, but you just have to accept things are not meant to be and move on.

As one era finishes another begins, and I am looking forward to doing my bit off the field.

I believe South African cricket is nowhere near the level it should be and there has been a decline in the last three or four years.

My work starts with the Under-19 team touring England in June, acting as a technical advisor to talk the players through the pitches and conditions they can expect and the way the game is played over there.

There will be no more county cricket but I have committed to captain Free State for another two years.